About Smartwool

SmartWool® is an apparel brand whose products are inspired by living and playing in the rugged Colorado Rocky Mountains. They offer year-round technical clothing for an active life lived in unpredictable mountain climates. Our products are created to get the most out of the inherent benefits of Merino wool while delivering extraordinary comfort and performance through smarter, more capable products that allow mountain athletes to do what they love to do longer.

They believe in the power of comfort. Simply put, it’s the belief that as long as you’re comfortable, you can do anything you put your mind to. Our lives and experience have given us a real understanding of what comfort means to a body in motion, and they’ve made it our mission to use this knowledge to help you better enjoy the outdoors. Staying comfortable all day, every day.

At the heart and soul of every SmartWool product is the amazing fiber they use: nature’s finest Merino wool. Used properly, they think it’s the best fiber available for outdoor apparel - manages moisture better than cotton, smarter than synthetics and more comfortable in any weather condition.

In our hands, it becomes extraordinary.

NOT ALL SHEEP ARE CREATED EQUAL: Introducing ZQ™
ZQ™ is an accreditation program, designed to ensure environmental, social and economic sustainability for growers, improve animal welfare and provide a means to trace end products back to the source.

By supporting ZQ™, they are supporting the ideology of fair trade. They encourage all companies, including our competitors, to do the same.

BEYOND THE FIBER
We make Merino wool more comfortable through innovative fabric creation and smart construction. Through specialized knitting technologies they’ve created fabrics that maximize the benefits of merino wool. They use smart garment construction to create products that offer the right amount of wool in areas where the body tends to chill and less where the body tends to run hot for maximum temperature regulating, comfort and performance.

EASY CARE:
Like you, they would rather be outside playing than inside doing laundry. So they’ve made most of our products easy care; meaning you can throw them in the washer and the dryer right along with the rest of your clothes. Just to be safe, though, always make sure you check the care label inside the garment.

SOME FUN SMARTWOOL FACTS
• One sheep “haircut” = One wool fleece = 10 pounds of wool = 40 pairs of SmartWool socks or 7 pieces of SmartWool Next-to-Skin Midweight
• An average SmartWool Sock has 500,000 individual fibers of wool.
• A standard cone of yarn weighs three pounds and has almost 25 miles of yarn. They use well over half a million cones of yarn a year – that’s enough to circle the earth 500 times. Talk about spinning a yarn.
• Merino sheep are fine boned and active with white wrinkled faces, white legs and pink noses. Rams have horns. They instinctively follow each other but don’t like to lead. All merino sheep are fluent in baah.

Smartwool Reviews

I was between sizes. The large fit better and didn't cut in but they are longer. I'm 5'9 and they are long enough on me but would be too long if I were shorter. I wear them for 12 hour shifts at the hospital and they are not too warm and help my legs a lot. I also use them for recovery after long runs.

Love these! Comfortable, year round socks that keep my feet from getting so sweaty in the summer but yet warm in the winter. No little lint pieces are left between my toes like the black Thor Lo socks I use to wear. Just enough cushioning on the bottom but not so much that they make your shoes fit tighter. Also stay up well. And like all Smartwool socks, they NEVER itch. I actually can't wear wool-except Smartwool, because it really doesn't feel at all like wool. Best sock company ever!!

Excellent quality and fit. Washes well - just don't put in the dryer. I was worried that the Feather Falls socks would fall down, as some reviewers said, but I didn't have this problem, even though my legs are rather skinny. This pack comes with a thin pair, a slightly thicker black cable knit pair, and a fully cushioned, thicker pair (the Fair Isle style). Good variety. I wore my Smart Wool socks every day this winter. Expensive, but worth the cost.

I love, love, love Smartwool Light socks. I have the shorter style, but this crew is handy for tucking your pants into your socks on the trail when bugs are around. This color and pattern will go with anything, and I plan to wear them in the city with nicer boots as well as for hiking. In my experience, Smartwool socks are the very best.

Unlike all the other reviewers, I find these socks a bit bulkier than I expected. I do not mind having a few pairs of heavier hikingsocks around, but I will stick to the Smartwool light walking and PhD lines from now on. I swear by Smartwool - the best socks around, hands down, well worth the price.

These socks launder horribly. After one wash they were covered with pills. After two washes, they were so covered with pills as to be unwearable. I have a device that shaves pills off of clothing, but who wants to spend twenty minutes shaving their socks after each washing? They were extremely expensive--for socks--but I threw them out.
I would have given them four stars for style before washing. After washing, no stars.

I returned this item. It really wasn't what I expected. I expected a heavier winter sweater. However, the material was very thin and not as comfortable as the midweight crew that I love from Smartwool. Also there is a little metal logo on the side that I didn't like. I didn't like the bottom or the end of the sleeves.

I absolutely love this. It is super comfortable. I wear it under my coat in the winter. I open my coat and don't feel hot at all. At the same time it is warm enough where you don't need a sweater. It looks so great that I usually wear it around the house or out for the day as opposed to skiing. I want to buy another one!

Smart Wool used to be a great sock, and some of the heavier styles are, but I bought a few pairs -- the ones with a contrast stripe across the top -- and at the FIRST wearing, could see my heel through; by the second, there were big holes at the heel. This is the kind of wear you would be disappointed in for $2 socks from a street vendor. At this prices, it's literal robbery!

Perfect socks! My feet are never sweaty even in hot temps, the socks don't stretch out even after days of wear, the ankle height is perfect and they fit snugly enough around the arch to actually give some support. After three days of wear on a long-distance hike, the black ones left my toes a bit discolored, but this is not a criticism; I just might order a lighter color next time.

I was really excited for these gloves, and I have to say they disappointed a little bit. First, they are too big for my hands. I got them in small and they were still too big (I guess I have small hands). Also, the touchscreen capability doesn't work very well, but that might very well be because the gloves are too big for me. More bummed than anything that they didn't fit perfectly. I'm still wearing them, though!!

Men's M a little large for my Women's size 8.5 shoe. But once in the dryer gets them to my foot size. Soft, medium padding, long enough to the calf. Comes in Black, Brown, Navy. Much better than cotton.

Smartwool socks are the best! They keep your feet warm without making them sweat. I like to wear them at home as slippers. This taupe color (which is more like a neutral light brown) goes with almost everything.

I have purchased many different brands of winter socks and without a doubt these are my favorites. They are in my opinion one of the most versatile, warm, comfortable, and good wearing socks on the market. Smartwool does make a thicker sock but you must have extra room in your boots for it to work properly and is only useful on an extremely cold days or if you live in a very cold climate zone. These well made socks are almost cushy with all the padding in the right places, once again another “home run” by the folks at Smartwool.

I wore through my two previous pairs of Smartwools ski socks at the same time, but they lasted me several years. I considered no other sock when I went to replace them.
They were 100% consistent performers for me and the new pair is right in line in terms of fit and comfort. Highly recommend.

I started having very sweaty feet at work (office job, wearing dress shoes) for no apparent reason. It got so bad that eventually my feet smelled even if I kept my shoes on. I bought these socks hoping they would be able to absorb sweat and keep my feet dryer, but they were not able to do so. I have had 3 different dress shoes on with these socks but the socks just don't absorb the sweat enough to be of much help. On top of that, after the first few times wearing the socks, they started to just feel "off" whenever I put them on, almost as though they're no longer aligned correctly (which is vague and sounds strange even to me but that's the best way to describe how it feels when I put them on). My feet are a size 13, I think normal width. I bought the socks in XL size (12-14.5). Once I have the socks on and adjusted, they feel okay, though. Especially for the high price, I'm disappointed with these socks. Their inability to absorb the sweat on my feet may have more to do with just how sweaty my feet are than with the quality of the material, but I have no excuses to make no behalf of the socks when it comes to how poorly they seem to fit.